FACTS which contradict what is taught in the universities and which even run counter to the assumptions made by critics of misandry.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Anna Liszka, Ohio Axe Murderess - 1927

FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 2): Cleveland, O. March 7. – Mrs.
Anna Liszka, on trial for manslaughter, today finished her story of how she
killed her husband, Anton, with an axe on the night of Feb. 2. The jury that
heard it probably will take the case by
noon tomorrow. Both sides rested after she had finished and when court
recessed, arguments were in progress.

The story was not easy in the telling, and the witness
collapsed twice on the stand. Throughout the day she sat before the crowded
court room recounting in detail years of alleged abuse that led up to the fatal
night when she found the are which she believed intended for herself and with
it battered out the life of the father of her three daughters.

She
told of a quarrel in bed on the night of the killing and of a threat she said
was made then by her husband. She had asked him to get her a drink. His
response, she said, was to tell her she would “not need many more drinks.”

“I
got out of bed myself and went for the drink,” she continued. “As I came back I
stumbled over an axe. I knew it was for me. I got back in bed and lay there
praying Then I got up and picked up the axe. For several minutes I stood beside
him. I thought he was asleep. But he wasn’t. He jumped at me – and I hit him.”

As
she reached the climax of her story. Mrs. Liszka’s eyes dropped to the axe
resting on the floor before her, tagged as evidence.

Her
shoulders swayed and she slid in the chair unconscious. For five minutes Bertha
Bodell, court probation officer sought to revive her.

Then
the story went on until a second collapse forced another interruption.

Her
three daughters, the eldest 15 sat around the counsel table while she
testified.

FULL TEXT (Article 2 of 2): Mrs. Anna Liska, who hacked her
husband, Anton, to death with an axe, was sentenced Monday to an indeterminate
term in the Maryville Reformatory by Common Pleas Judge Walter MacMahon at
Cleveland.

Mrs. Liszka was granted a $5,000 bail pending her appeal to
the court of appeals.

Judge McMahon’s action followed a report by Dr. Royal
Grossman, physician for the Cuyoga county probation department, who said his
examination of the woman indicated she was in good physical condition.